Skills are critical for sustainable competitiveness, innovation, and resilience in quickly changing business and market contexts. The space sector needs professionals with the required skills to master the green and digital transitions, take up disruptive changes, and excel in competitive markets. Education and continued training are essential for the future success of industrial companies, research organisations and people, ensuring that space companies remain competitive in the modern era and the workers evolve to become a better workforce and citizens in the future.

STARS*EU will analyse the current main curricula and courses available and the skills demanded by R&I and industry in the space sector. The goal is to provide recommendations to ensure alignment between the needs and the offer under consideration of emerging trends in the sector.

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(Defining a Vocabulary for) Assessing Education and Skills for Space in the EU

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